Human-Building Interaction
Our research has highlighted the challenges of understanding, simulating, and designing for the complex interactions between…
Topic Energy
Materials, buildings, landscapes, cities, and urbanization are all overtly connected energy hierarchies that must be lucidly understood as the basis of any design agenda for energy today.
Parametric Energy Simulation in Early Design
This project proposed a framework for the development of early-design guidance to inform architects and policy-makers using…
ULSAN REMADE: Manufacturing the Modern Industrial City
The Spring 2017 option studio “ULSAN REMADE: Manufacturing the Modern Industrial City” worked with the presence of the ‘Fifth Industrial Revolution,’ a current systematic transformation combining accelerated and automated methods of manufacture and industrial production. This transformation features changes to local patterns of energy,…
Energizing Retrofits in an Inefficient Market: A Scalable Model for Small Commercial Buildings
by Greg Hopkins (MDes '17) Buildings consume more energy than any other sector in the…
Harvard Center for Green Buildings and Cities unveils HouseZero project, an ambitious retrofit of its Cambridge headquarters
The Harvard Center for Green Buildings and Cities (CGBC) has revealed its centerpiece initiative:…
Design for Recovery: Fieldwork in Nepal & Somalia
During January of 2016, a group of GSD students travelled to Nepal and Kenya, to…
Mobilizing Habitations: Re-Imagining Nomadic Architecture in the Sub-Saharan Sahel Region
by Aman Singhvi (MDes '16) As land is increasingly commoditized with an upsurge in population,…
On Adapting
by Caio Barboza (MArch '16) and Sofia Blanco Santos (MArch '16) — Recipient of the James Templeton…
Heterotic Architecture: Stacks, Chimneys & Chutes
by Joshua Feldman (MArch '16) — Recipient of the 2016 James Templeton Kelly Prize The…